Developers of a 37,542-square-foot "pencil beam" cancer-fighting center slated for the red-hot Hamlin community in southwest Orange County now are seeking county approvals.

And new renderings show what the center may look like once it's complete.

Entities related to Orlando-based Boyd Development Corp. and Knoxville, Tenn.-based Provision Healthcare want to build the ProVision Proton Therapy Center north of New Independence Parkway and east of Hamlin Groves Trail on a planned 17-acre campus. The total project site for which Boyd Development is seeking approval is 60.78 acres broken up into three lots. The proton therapy center would go on Lot 2.

The project is up for approval at an Oct. 18 Orange County development review committee meeting.

Boyd — in partnership with Schrimsher Properties of Central Florida Inc. — is developing Hamlin, a master-planned, mixed-use community in Horizon West. Once complete, it will have nearly 2 million square feet of retail, restaurants, entertainment, hotels, medical facilities, office space and several thousand homes.

The owner is Provision Proton Center At Hamlin LLC, an entity related to Boyd Development. The engineer is Kelly Collins & Gentry Inc. of Orlando; the surveyor is Winter Garden-based Allen & Co.; the geotechnical engineer is Terracon of Winter Park and the architect is Michael Brady Inc.

Boyd Development previously told Orlando Business Journal it wants to get started on the first phase — the proton center's infrastructure — by the end of this year. The developer is in discussions with contractors for the work right now, said Ken Kupp, partner at Boyd Development. A project value can be assigned once a general contractor is selected.

The 17-acre medical campus will be the first piece of the 130-acre Hamlin West Town Center. The medical campus is expected to attract ancillary cancer care centers and offshoots from those types of businesses, generating a new workforce for Hamlin — and create 80 to 90 permanent jobs, said Kupp.

All of Provision Healthcare’s treatment rooms are pencil-beam equipped, which allows physicians to specifically and narrowly apply the radiation power of protons — such as in breast cancer cases — sparing skin damage and reducing tissue damage to the heart and lungs.

And there was a compelling reason to bring a proton-therapy center here. “Their patients come in for four to six weeks for treatment,” Kupp told OBJ. “Each treatment lasts about 45 minutes. In the meantime, they look for places where they can go and enjoy themselves. In Orlando, they can go to the attractions or play golf. You can amp up the idea of a medical vacation. It is about benefiting from the medical tourism industry that exists in Central Florida.”

The Florida medical tourism market is worth $6 billion, according to a study that looked at tourists in Florida who used local hospital services from 2013-14. Worldwide, medical tourism is a $100 billion market.